Photo: Philippe Grégoire · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 59% of adults around Scott; the typical Canadian town: 52%
People in the region live to 82.8 on average: 84.4 for women and 81.3 for men in 2022/2024. For Scott itself the measure is access, and it lags: 5.2 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Scott grades A− for health, #311 of 503 in Quebec and #927 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Scott
A long-lived region
Born around Scott, a child can expect 1.3 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Scott grades A− for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
The region’s four figures and the town’s distance to a hospital are each ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, then averaged. Its place: #311 of 503 in Quebec and #927 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
How the grade works
Health is graded as a regional score, labelled as such: very good or excellent self-rated health, chronic conditions (arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure averaged) and smoking from the Canadian Community Health Survey, each age-standardised so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, and life expectancy at birth, all for the health region. The residents’ average distance to a hospital is the one input measured for the town itself, so towns in one region can still differ.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Quebec, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 5th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Scott’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 0.8 years
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Scott’s lies above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 2.7, Scott’s region would be expected to reach 82.0 years; it reaches 82.8. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 81.4. Modest pay, about $75,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (0.14).
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, 2022/2024, by health region. Deprivation: Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021 (situational vulnerability), averaged over each region’s towns by their residents; income: 2021 Census median household income, averaged the same way. The averages and the line are TownRatings calculations.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.2% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity tracks the province: 31% of adults here, 29% across Quebec. Heavy drinking is commoner too (26% against 22%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight. The anxiety disorder figure is the 2021/2022 estimate: Statistics Canada found the latest too unreliable to publish here.
The nearest hospital is 5.2 km from the average home in Scott
Straight-line distances from each part of Scott, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Scott travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
Self-rated health much as in Quebec: 57% to 56%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 69% rate it very good or excellent, against 64% in Quebec, and 18% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Scott is 21st of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,893 to 2,984 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairview AB C− | 2,918 | 0.6 km | 48% |
| 2 | Black Diamond AB A+ | 2,910 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 3 | Moosomin SK C− | 2,906 | 1.1 km | 49% |
| 19 | Suder Greens AB B | 2,928 | 4.7 km | 51% |
| 20 | Carpenter ON B | 2,941 | 4.9 km | 53% |
| 21 | Scott QC A− | 2,938 | 5.2 km | 59% |
| 22 | Lago Lindo AB B | 2,963 | 5.6 km | 51% |
| 23 | Paisley AB B | 2,897 | 5.9 km | 51% |
| 40 | Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon QC B | 2,916 | 29 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Scott
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | 5.2 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Bernard 4.6 km | 8.3 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Marie 7.4 km | 2.8 km | 59% | 82.8 | A |
| Saint-Isidore 7.7 km | 13 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Elzéar 11 km | 6.9 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Sainte-Hénédine 11 km | 11 km | 59% | 82.8 | A− |
| Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage 12 km | 15 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
Same region, same survey: Scott’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage live further from a hospital, at 15 km against 5.2 km in Scott.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Scott alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Scott
How healthy is Scott?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 15%.
How is Scott’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Scott’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Scott?
Women in Scott’s region live to 84.4 on average and men to 81.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Scott from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Scott live: 4.6 km to a clinic, 4.7 km to a pharmacy.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).